[Dragaera] Iorich ***SPOILERS****

[Eugene Zaretskiy]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Steve Rapaport
<steve.rapaport at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I guess an argument I would buy against this idea is that Vlad and friends
>> would be averse to the amount of bloodshed that would be required.  On the
>> other hand he was ready to take out a roomful of LHs not so long ago if
>> forced to.
>>
>
> He can't take out the Jhereg council, for *nearly* this reason.  Vlad is an
> assassin, not a serial killer or a psychopath.  As Cawti pointedly said when
> Vlad Norathar asked this very question, "You can't always solve problems by
> killing someone.  In fact, as your father can testify, most of the time
> killing someone just makes things worse."  (p116, hardcover Iorich)
>
> And Vlad himself points out that when the Jhereg kill someone, it's somebody
> who "deserved it", and he seems to think that makes it easier to be a
> Jhereg.
>
> And he has the examples of friends like Morrolan, Aliera, and Kragar, all of
> whom would be utterly contemptuous of any plan that involved appearing more
> concerned about their own skins than that of anyone else who isn't an actual
> enemy in melee.  He is starting to pick up their morality a bit, I think.
>
> So even if it were guaranteed to work, it would be pretty much unjustifiable
> to Vlad to kill the Jhereg Council, just to save his own hide.   He would
> basically believe he deserved to die himself after such a dishonourable
> massacre.

By the end of Iorich, that seems to be nearly how he feels about
himself as it is.

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